Arts & Culture

Technology for art’s sake

By
Leif Larsen
What happens when you give a reference librarian an iPhone and tell her to do something exciting? If you’re Liv Valmestad, a librarian in the University of Manitoba’s architecture and fine arts library, you...
Comment

Retail worker blues

By
Leif Larsen
I don’t get mad very often. Sure I get frustrated, discouraged and annoyed . . . but mad is one of those special emotions that I reserve for a very select group of people....
Editorial

The Manitoban gets motivational

By
Leif Larsen
Considering this is the editorial page, I am about to make a bold statement: Stop complaining about things and start acting. That’s right. Stop posting rants on your Facebook wall, stop tweeting your gripes...
Arts & Culture

In Desolation

By
Leif Larsen
You can always tell which books on my shelf are my favorites; they have been read so many times that the spine is creased, the pages dog-eared and they refuse to stay closed unless...
Features

Fight or flight in the biology lab

By
Leif Larsen
Exam anxiety has been a hot topic here at the U of M recently. I myself have experienced exam anxiety, although it had nothing to do with a medical condition and everything to do...
News

There’s a USB port in that wall!

By
Leif Larsen
*A shadowy figure walks down a dark alley. As they look over their shoulder, ensuring they are alone, a netbook is removed from a pocket, unfolded and plugged into a wall. Within moments a...
Editorial

You’ll thank me later

By
Leif Larsen
Dear Mr. Mayor, First let me congratulate you on winning a third term in office as Winnipeg’s mayor. You overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles, such as a city heaving under the weight of violent crime (a...
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